Green Party of California

Application for Member, Delegation to Green Party of the United States
(job description)
received January 4th, 2008

Name  -  Mato Ska aka Martin Zehr
City - San Francisco
County - San Francisco
Contact information - (415) 337-5337; m_zehr@hotmail.com

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1) Please list any prior or current positions, related experience, and/or personal and professional skills within of the Green Party that you have, that apply to this position.

Registered Green since 1992 in NM and since 2007 in California; Former National Committee Delegate for the New Mexico Green Party, 2004-2007; former member Eco-Action Committee; co-chair Bernalillo County Green Party, Green Council member NMGP; GDI member; NM Green Delegate National Meeting- Tucson observer at Tulsa National Meeting; requested to be a committed delegate for Cynthia McKinney for President at the Nominating Convention

2) Please list any prior or current positions, related experience, and/or personal and professional skills outside of the Green Party that you have, that apply to this position.

Vice-President Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly; alternate representative of Urban Users on the MRGWA; Steering Committee member representing the NMGP on the NM Drug Policy Coalition, member Committee of Prison Accountability, contributing writer for Kurdish Aspect; contributor to OpEdNews.com, adopted relative through ceremony of Native American two spirit, enrolled Wind River Shoshone.

3) Please describe your vision for serving as GPUS Delegate including addressing the job description for GPUS Delegate.


An NC Delegate from California needs to represent the concerns of California Greens within the National Committee both organizationally and politically; an NC delegate needs to recognize the decisions of the leadership bodies of the GPCA; an NC member needs to maintain the necessary decorum within the NC to address resolutions and proposals, sponsor them as directed by the state Green Party and make proposals that can be reviewed by state and county bodies of the party; an NC member needs to support the campaign efforts of the Presidential nominee as determined by the nominating convention of the GPUS, an NC representative needs to assure adequate representation of the needs and concerns of California Greens internally and increase the financial viability and organizational integrity of the GPUS, an NC delegate needs to work with other California state delegates in addressing proposals and resolutions before the NC; an NC delegate needs to communicate with other delegates in the review and evaluation of actions before the NC in a professional manner that upholds the integrity of the decision-making process; an NC delegate represents his or her own views in such a way as to promote unity while forthrightly representing GPCA and not sacrificing the ethical responsibility for my own individual accountability in upholding the Ten Key Values and an NC delegate needs to respect divergent views within the GPCA and the National Committee.